Wild(life) Encounters – Tales from our Brokers

Lions and tigers and polar bears – oh my!

In our final episode of the year, Haley is joined by some of Mirr’s brokers to tell tales of unforgettable wildlife encounters and the magical landscape of the West in the wintertime.  From close calls with mountain lions and polar bears to breathtaking landscapes on snowy trails, these fun little stories really capture the rugged beauty and wild surprises of life in the great outdoors. Whether you’re looking for a thrilling tale or a moment of quiet reflection, this episode has it all!

Happy holidays from Mirr Ranch Group and see you next year!

Topics

[0:00] Introduction

[1:12] Chris Corroon – Mountain lions in Utah

[5:29] Erik Anderson – Predator and prey in Wyoming

[9:48] Woody Beardsley – Polar Bears in the Arctic

[17:30] Respect for nature’s power

[27:40] Moments of awe out west

[34:46] Wrapping up – happy holidays from Mirr Ranch Group!

Haley Mirr (00:06):

Welcome back to the Land Bulletin podcast, where every other week we bring you experts in the field to impart their knowledge when it comes to the ranch and sporting property market, buying and selling advice, the latest, best stewardship practices, as well as topics that impact landowners every day. I’m your host, Haley Mirr. Let’s jump in. 

Welcome back to the Land Bulletin podcast. I’m Haley Mirr, and today we’re bringing you a special holiday episode. While you guys are hanging with family, need to maybe get away from family. Need a break. We’re talking about a few wildlife interactions we’ve had as brokers along the way from winter hunting spots to finding yourself in the middle of nowhere and having eyes on a moose. We thought it’d be fun to see what our guys see on a regular basis out there on ranches, on hikes with their family. So we’re going to start first with our broker out in Utah, Chris Corroon. Chris, I’d love to hear, I know you’re always kind of on the road, you do a lot outside. What are some really cool stories of interactions you’ve had with some animals out there?

Chris Corroon (01:12):

Well, I think like all you guys, we’ve all had some interesting interactions over the years and whether it’s being chased by a moose or running into porcupines or bear or whatever, but probably my most memorable was a long time ago when I had hair and I was able to jog in the mountains. I was a little bit more athletic. I used to live up in Midway Utah, which is in Wasatch County, beautiful area. I lived at the base of the Wasatch Mountain State Park, and there was one afternoon, it was a Sunday afternoon, I was jogging up towards the ridge line behind my house, and one of those typical kind of late summer storms rolled in where all of a sudden the temperature dropped and the sky got dark. Wind started blowing, and I said, you know what? I don’t want to be fooling around with lightning.

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So I turned back and I lived in an area which was again surrounded by state park, but a lot of deer, tons of mule deer. And as I was jogging back towards my house, I encountered a mule deer, which was pretty good sized deer. It was running right at me and its eyes were as big as light bulbs and mule deer, they usually kind of hop a little bit when they’re getting out of your way. But this thing was at a full Gallup and just stopped at as dead in its tracks and looked at me and just bolted up the side of this mountain and I thought, boy, maybe that Neil deer has a six sense of where the next bolt of lightning’s going to hit and wanted to get out of here. So I literally kind of spooked me. I jogged about 10 seconds and then I just had this presence. Something was behind me, and I turned around and probably literally 20 feet away was this pretty good size cougar that was just staring right at me.

Haley Mirr (03:05):

So scary

Chris Corroon (03:07):

And didn’t appear to be annoyed by me or spooked by me, but just we locked eyes for a few seconds and I thought I was seeing a ghost. I was in an area again with a lot of mule deer and where there’s mule deer, there’s typically mountain lions, and it turned its head and casually trotted away and then it bolted. So it was probably an immature, I mean, it was not a full grown cat. It was probably immature mountain lion that was kind of trying to learn how to hunt and whatnot. But it really spooked me because those are very rare animals to see in the wild, and I’ve heard stories of hunters that have been tracked by ’em and have encountered them, but Utah, there’s not a ton of cougar sightings as you see in say, Washington state, Vancouver Island or even Colorado. You guys have more cougar sightings. So it was a really, really special event for me. And I’ll never forget that one scared, you know what out of me. But I did jog down the trail a little bit and got home pretty quickly.

Haley Mirr (04:20):

That’s good. Yeah. How do you interact with a cat when you see it like that in the wilderness? Was your first instinct to just kind of back off or,

Chris Corroon (04:29):

Yeah, I just backed off. I didn’t make myself look big. None of that didn’t seem to be aggressive or wasn’t pawing the ground and didn’t have a young with it, which is really the worst. They say you don’t want to run from a turn your back on a mountain lion, and they say that their first response if they get aggressive is to make yourself look big, make a lot of noise. Hopefully it’ll back off. But I didn’t have to do any of that. It got out of there before I did, so I felt pretty lucky.

Haley Mirr (05:02):

My hands are sweating

Woody Beardsley (05:04):

Was cool.

Haley Mirr (05:06):

Have you guys interacted with a cat, Eric or Woody in the wilderness?

Woody Beardsley (05:10):

I’ve seen one or two once when I was a kid, was pretty spooked by it. I was kind of solo and then once, just very brief glance more recently, but they’re pretty powerful. Just seen once, pretty rare.

Erik Anderson (05:29):

I’ve had two experiences with cats, well, a couple more than that, but the one that I can tell you where I was most frightened is we’re in the southern big horns and hunting elk. And our hunting group was a bit dispersed and I was trailing a friend of mine who thought he was on an elk, and so we were kind of putting together our strategy, and so he kind of went a little bit more south than I did. And I ended up in this draw and no cell phone service dark, and we’re going up this draw and it came into a Y and we thought the elk was kind of more to the left. So I kind of went to the right a little bit and I’m looking at my map and I looked down on the ground and I see flies. I thought, well, geez, I don’t really see flies all that often in October. And then I looked down again and there was a mound of dirt with the flies on top of the mound. I thought, well, that’s really weird. And then I looked to even further and I thought, well, that’s an antelope leg underneath the mound, so that’s why the flies are there. And then I looked next to that mound and there was another mound with another antelope leg, and I thought,

Haley Mirr (06:54):

My God,

Erik Anderson (06:55):

I know what this is. This is the cat’s next meal, and if I don’t get out of here, maybe I’m the meal after that. Because what cats do of course is they eat and then they save quarters for later without trying to be too gruesome, but they typically watch and so they’re watching their meal making sure that no other critters actually come back. And so I was a critter in a cat’s eyes, and so I don’t know that I’ve ever moved that fast before in my life. I slung everything over my neck and I crawled up this rock face. I was a Billy goat getting out of there, and I think I was sweating. My hair was up. I was by myself in this draw the middle of the mountains. So I think cats are probably the spookiest creatures we all sometimes have fortunate to see and sometimes don’t. We just know that you’re being watched.

Haley Mirr (08:03):

Yeah. It’s like we respect them, we know why they, but keep your distance. And I didn’t know that about them watching their meal. That’s really good to know if you see something like that, this isn’t just by happenstance. There’s something kind of around that made this happen. So thanks for the knowledge there, Eric, so we can luck out. Yeah,

Erik Anderson (08:26):

I hope you don’t run into that situation. Eric,

Haley Mirr (08:30):

You’ve lived in Colorado your whole life. What are some of your favorite stories of running in other than the cats that we’ve been talking about? Well,

Woody Beardsley (08:39):

My kind of maybe most amazing wildlife encounter was in Alaska, and I was an activist for Greenpeace. Greenpeace had hired a crew of us to support a action against an oil rig off the coast of Prude Bay, and we camped, a group of us were the land kind of crew while the ship came up around the coast of Alaska and we watched this oil crew all summer watching the cell traffic and the shift traffic, and we essentially did a siege on the rig, all the green piece of coutre, the boats and the helicopters and all that. We were opposing them moving the soil rig from PTO Bay to off the coast of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. And we were camped in what was very well known as polar bear habitat and a polar bear terrain where they cub and they occupy during the spring and winter, and then they leave in the summer and go out to the pack ice.

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And we had all summer long seen a lot of sign, mostly big huge tracks and scat piles in these sandbars. We were camped on this just basically a sandbar that was about three and a half feet above the water line and the tidal surge. The storm surge would be as high as seven feet, so we had to be able to get out of there if a storm came, but it’s pretty mild up there in the summer. And we ultimately ended up moving to go and occupy the location where they were going to move this rig. It was again, a series of press events that we were trying to stir up. And when we moved to the coast of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, we saw a polar bear in her cubs and that she was doing what they do on sandbars just like our sandbars that we’d been camped on all summer long.

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So it was kind of like, wow, that’s pretty impressive. But we were far away. We were kind of looking there with binoculars and kind of long story short, we ultimately drew the ire and the attention of the oil patch and the oil industry and the feds and the Coast Guard. And so we got wind that the Coast Guard was coming to impound the boat. And so the Danish captain said, well, screw this. And he took the ship and he went and we got out of national water into international water and we parked the ship up against the pack ice in the Arctic. And so the radar can’t detect the ship from the ice and they can’t find us. And we parked there for three days and we were just spinning our wheels at this point. We’d been camping all summer. Now we’re on this ship and we’re starting to get bored.

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And there were a crew of us from, I was living in Montana at the time, there was a handful of us from Montana. We’re sitting in the galley of the ship playing cards, and that galley deck is probably maybe eight feet up off what would be the surface water level of where the water, the ship’s sitting in the water and we’re sitting there playing cards. All of a sudden we look and this polar bear looks in the wind of the guy and we’re like, what? We throw our cards down, we go scampering up the two decks above, and we look down and there’s this bear looking up that’s so scary. He’s casing the boat, he’s on the ice where we’re parked next to it, and he’s casing this boat. He’s looking up there he is like, if I could get up there and kick your ass, I would said, and we were down, we were taking pictures, we’re scrambling around everyone on the ship trying to look at this bear.

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And so it was pretty exciting and it was very impressive. Animal was a lone animal this time, I can’t remember if it was male or female, but a pretty damn, he stand at eight feet tall looking in the window of this ship, and about two days later, the Danish captain decided to finally leave and we were going to try to get back to Anchorage without getting caught or whatever. That’s a different story, but we were about two days away, so we’re now 30 miles from the pack ice. We’re out in the arctic north of PTO Bay and we’re a hundred miles from land and we’re out there in the water. And it had been in one of these first warm years where all oceans had really were much higher temperatures, enormous. So all the marine mammal they’re feeding on krill are up in the Arctic.

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And we saw all kinds of whales and every species you can imagine, but we’re out there sitting along and damn if there isn’t a polar bear out swimming in the water 30 miles from the pack ice a hundred miles from land. And we got up and we’re down looking at this thing in the water. And again, this bear’s looking up. He is like, if I could figure out how I get up that boat, I’d kick your ass. It was so undaunted, so did not care about us and was just looking for this ship did not impress it at all.

Woody Beardsley (13:43):

It was maybe the most impressive thing I’ve ever seen in terms of wildlife. It was just we were out as far away as you can be from anything. And here was this bear. I mean, we never felt in danger. We were up on this ship, but boy was it impressive.

Haley Mirr (13:56):

Yeah. So you were saying 30 miles out of anywhere he could potentially,

Woody Beardsley (14:00):

Yeah, and I believe, I have to double check, they had a cool library in the ship of the Greenpeace. We were looking ’em up. I think polar bears are classified as marine mammals because everything they eat is marine. I mean, they eat seals and walruses and all this stuff, and I think technically they may be classified as marine mammals. So it’s pretty cool.

Haley Mirr (14:22):

Wow. How long were you in the Arctic? How many weeks or months were you up there?

Woody Beardsley (14:27):

We started, we came up via land probably mid June, and we were there until, I think early September we finally got back. There was a lot of sitting around waiting. We got impounded and then processed on the dock in Homer, but I think that was first week of September, so we were there pretty much all summer.

Haley Mirr (14:50):

That’s so cool. Yeah, I’ve never been up there, but I mean, that’s where wildlife exists. If you really want to see it, it’s up there.

Woody Beardsley (15:00):

And the Arctic summer is amazing because the sun’s just doing these laps and these long, long days and it never goes down. It’s pretty impressive. By September it’s going down just for a little bit, but during the main part of the summer it was just one big long day. It was pretty cool.

Haley Mirr (15:17):

And while K Wyoming is not the Arctic, have you seen some really cool animals up there up at the ranch, Eric?

Erik Anderson (15:24):

Yeah, I think we always think about cats kind of, and had a neat experience. This year I was again hunting for mule deer and I was with a good friend, we’ll call him cd, and we were in the shade after a long hike in the morning, decided just to kind of park it in the shade and just be quiet and see if something happens and develops. And we had been there for two hours and obviously we were being quiet enough and a bobcat showed up, which I think we put on social media here at Ranch Group, but a bobcat showed up like 40 yards from us, and CD kind of pinched me with a small move. And I looked up and there was this bobcat just walking by us and looking at us, and we didn’t move. And it just strolled by. We weren’t spooked.

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It wasn’t spooked. I mean, it was just one of those surreal moments that you only get if you’re quiet for hours in the wilderness and letting things happen around you. Certainly more their environment than our environment. And so we’re in their space. And so it was really neat. And then as it kind of kept walking along, we noticed that it had a kitten. And so then there was a kitten kind of jumping up and down next to Mama and it was pretty cool. And then we thought, and then it kind of dipped back over the edge of the bowl. We were on top and what, well, I wonder where it went. And so we went up to the edge and looked over. It was gone. I mean, it was somewhere else. So it’s neat to be quiet, letting nature develop on its

Haley Mirr (17:19):

Own. Yeah, and it’s neat. I mean, the only, I’m not as cool as you guys. I haven’t experienced in cat and wilderness other than Safari in Africa’s

Erik Anderson (17:30):

Pretty wild.

Haley Mirr (17:31):

That’s what you’re paying to see. Pretty wild.

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But it’s really neat. Ken always talks about you can find your own safari in the West. It’s really cool to see, and people don’t, if you just live in the cities out west, you never really get to experience some of this stuff. But to be able to kind of, when we were down at Trend Ranch a couple years ago as a company and seeing those elk herds at sundown kind of come out of nowhere. It’s your own safari in your backyard, which is really cool. And it’s neat to know that you guys have had a lot of these experiences out in the field and on ranches that you’ve been on. You don’t need to go to Africa to see some of this stuff if you really do spend the time to see some of these things. I guess a follow up, maybe all of these experiences you’ve guys have had been when you’ve been the most scared, but when have you been maybe the most scared in the wilderness? Maybe it’s because of animals, maybe it’s because of something else. And then how did you kind of overcome that and get out of that situation? I’ll start with Woody.

Woody Beardsley (18:38):

Oh gosh, I didn’t know we were going to get this. It was probably, I spent the summer walking from Montana to Colorado and I was alone in southwestern Montana and kind of north of the Italian peaks. I was probably a good day away. There was two days from the interstate and I was probably a day away from the last ranch that I’d kind of passed, and I was worn out and I was probably dehydrated and exhausted, and I had had very weird experience during the day where I was, had been kind of in a fit of rage loss and had lost my map or been to, I was trying to figure out where I was and was pissed off and thrashing about and out of nowhere like Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz, this tree just slapped me in the face. So wasn’t anyone else walking in front of me to have the branch go forward and then come back and get me.

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It was just like the ranch. The branch just told me to grow up young man and slap me in the face. And so it was a little startling and I kind of woo. But when I finally kind of figured out where I was and I went to make camp that night when I went to my little stove and cook and boil water, I passed out and I started getting, so I couldn’t stand up and I was having some kind of vasal, vagal or whatever response, and I was very startling and it took me about an extra day to rehydrate and get to where I could stand up and stay, stand up without having to sit back down. And I was pretty far from anywhere and I was alone. So it was a pretty daunting, and I was afraid at that point. I turned out I was fine the next day I was kind of back to normal, but for a day or two was a little daunting to be not sure what my physical condition was and what I was going to do about it.

Haley Mirr (20:43):

Yeah, that’s Super scary. 

Woody Beardsley (20:44):

No cell phones, none of that in those days. So kind of trippy,

Haley Mirr (20:50):

Just kind of sitting in that and thinking, okay, what’s tomorrow? How do I get through tonight?

Woody Beardsley (20:55):

Well, and the trees are messing with me, right?

Haley Mirr (20:57):

And the trees are messing with you. No one’s on your side in that situation. What about you, Eric was seeing the dead animal parts kind of strewn about one of those scary moments

Erik Anderson (21:10):

For people? Yeah, I think that’s probably ranks right up there. And I was just thinking about probably lightning

Erik Anderson (21:18):

Having A lot of close that’s calls two of which were near the top of Fourteeners and hair

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On its end on my neck and arms and got cliffed out and had to run back over the fourteener because we were young and dumb and making bad decisions on following trails and not following trails. But I think that Woody’s experience Arctic got me thinking about Alaska, and I’ve been fortunate to go up there a couple times. And I think the first time we were in Whale Bay, which is on the east side of Barno Island down south of Juno, it’s just south of Sitka actually in the Alexander Archipelago. And we were in Whale Bay and we had taken a small boat up into this bay and we got out with fly rods and we were silver salmon fishing with fly rods and with my daughter who was probably six at the time, and there’s a waterfall and there are bears on top of the waterfall. We’re fishing below that waterfall for these silvers that are trying to go up the waterfall. And we weren’t scared, but having my daughter there, I had never been that close in water to a bear.

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And recognizing that they’re way more focused on the fish than us, but I still just not comfortable with it entirely. Especially

Haley Mirr (23:09):

With your daughter, with you, it’s like,

Erik Anderson (23:12):

Are they coming around the waterfall? Are they going to swim into this water? What are they actually doing? Was it super abreast of all of bear behavior in Alaska and nothing ever happened and we were told we should be fine, but is that one of those words that make you feel comfortable in the wilderness?

Haley Mirr (23:33):

Yes,

Erik Anderson (23:34):

But I think Bears can provide that humility out there for all of us.

Haley Mirr (23:40):

I would agree. And Chris,

Chris Corroon (23:43):

Yeah, no, those great stories. I’ve had a couple of scary encounters. One, I had to spend the night in a hunter’s camp. It was a very cold night, but probably in 1988 when the summer that Yellowstone was burning down, you guys probably recall that. It was a really horrendous fire season. I was in the Wind River range with a couple of guys. We were packing from Lander to Pinedale, and it was back in the day when we had 60 pound packs. There’s external frame packs with a lot of heavy climbing gear. Long story short, we ran into a forest fire, a pretty

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Natural, natural

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Fire. We’d been in the wilderness for probably almost a month. And as we were headed to Pinedale, we ran into a really gnarly fire. I’ll never forget, it was just east of Valentine Lake in the winds. And we had another day. We got up that morning, there was ashes on our sleeping bags and two of the guys hiked down a canyon. We knew there was a fire to kind of see what was going on. And we spent, long story short, we spent the entire day basically fleeing a series of fires that had caught not knowing if we were going to get out. We got down into the kind of foothills of the winds, the side of Pinedale. We’d been in the mountains for quite, like I said, almost a month. And we ran into some wet boggy stuff and just kind of ended up on a forest service road luckily, and got picked up by forest service crew that was looking, knew we were out there that was looking for us. So that was really pretty scary. When we first encountered the fire, we were down by a lake and remember looking up at these lodge pole pines just exploding. And so it was, I never thought we’d have any issues with fire, but that was a long time ago. That was even when I had more hair before I ran into

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Metal. Even better shapes now, I don’t know if I could pull that off today.

Haley Mirr (26:08):

I’m envisioning you with really long flowing locks. How much hair did you have?

Chris Corroon (26:13):

Yeah, forest fires and lightning. Those are things like Eric, what you guys have all said, those are animals are unpredictable, but we all know that when you get out into the wilderness these days, you’ve got GPS, you’ve got OnX land id, you’ve got weather forecasts, cell phones, of course, which back in the eighties and even early nineties, we had none of that stuff. So we use and encompasses. So anyway,

Haley Mirr (26:45):

Yeah,

Chris Corroon (26:46):

Yeah,

Haley Mirr (26:46):

It’s true. I think the natural, the scariest I’ve ever been is back country skiing and avalanches. And even with that stuff, you have CAIC, some of those kind of

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Systems that help you kind of understand snow pack and all those things at your disposal, but it is the natural elements I think that are unpredictable that you got to really be weary of. And then my last kind of fun question for the holiday season to get to know you guys a little bit more for our listeners is what is one of your favorite stories of being on a ranch where either you were just impressed by Mother nature and kind of the expanse of what landscapes in the west are, or kind of an experience with a client, something where you just were like, this is why I love what I do, this is why I love the west. This is why I love being outside.

Erik Anderson (27:40):

Maybe I’ll just start with more of a general statement, but I think that a lot of us enjoy a lot of activities on these fabulous places that we get to visit and tour and work on and kind of the spring to fall, right? There are a lot of activities and a lot of people enjoy those three seasons, but anytime you’re out in the winter, it just seems a little bit more peaceful. There’s something about a couple inches of snow, whether it’s windy or not. It is just like this really satisfying place where you always kind of feel like it’s tranquil, it’s peaceful. You’re thankful to be outside and not inside in those moments. So I guess that would be my general comment before I think of something more specific.

Haley Mirr (28:39):

I would agree. My favorite thing is in the wintertime when it snows or right after it snows and it’s nighttime, but it’s bright out like that, feeling beautiful. It’s like one of my favorite feelings the entire planet. What about you? What are some of the times where you’re just grateful to be

Woody Beardsley (28:57):

On land? I would’ve to say a few years ago, sold a ranch in New Mexico that was out on the Eastern prairie on both sides of the Canadian River Gorge. This is a really remarkable part of the world where the Canadian river cuts through what is otherwise just big, broad prairie, and it subsequently provides an immense amount of habitat and secure wildlife out midst of these two huge ranches. There’s this little smaller ranch that was in on the canyon that was called 20 Hatchets. It’s now called Trace Armas. There’s a neat story behind that. Getting to know that property was really neat because it was very remote. It was 14 miles from the road on one side and 20 miles from the road on the other, and you had to really kind of find your way in there. And what was neat about it is that these had been old Hispanic homesteads. There were families that had lived out there before electricity and even after electricity without electricity in these just very, not primitive, but simple habit cabins and outbuildings. They figured out how to retain water, build these little cisterns, the cliff walls, the canyon walls, and had etched the living out. They had grown peaches in the bottom of the canyon

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And you had to spend time out there to walk anywhere to really show the property. You had to really spend some time climbing around and coming to get a sense of the people that had lived there for so long. These families was really both humbling and inspiring time and just really quiet out there. It was wonderful both with the seller who showed me and taught me about the property, but then also to the buyer ultimately came to love it. And it’s been neat to stay in touch and get to see what they’re doing with it. And they’re really trying to keep it much the same way. I’m proud to say that they pleased to say that they have subsequently recorded a conservation easement on the ranch with the New Mexico Land Conservancy. So that’s been was a really neat memory.

Haley Mirr (31:32):

That’s awesome. What about you, Chris?

Chris Corroon (31:35):

So I would say I’m kind of a winter guy, so probably I love just visiting all these listings that I’ve got in Utah and Idaho, which are spectacular. My favorite time of year is winter, so I love the snow, but probably my most enjoyable experiences have been, and I know I’ve talked to Woody about this as skate skiing, I love Nordic skiing. I’m a big skate skier and I go out, you went to National Forest, has a groom trail system, and I used to go out with my Wier honors and I’d go skijoring with those dogs. I’d go in the evening as summer setting, really cold January, kind of late December, early January evenings and bring my headlamp. And to me that was probably the most, that probably is the most enjoyable part of my being outside and being on. I’ve got a couple of ranches listings that you could do this on as well.

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So I haven’t done in a while. I’m looking forward to doing some more of that. My dogs have died, but Weimaraners are great capture dogs, by the way. If anybody’s into that kind of stuff. And if you see my profile picture on the Murr Ranch group page, you’ll see I’m with Old Ace. He was a great dog. He was a great runner and my skate skis, but that’s really what I loved. That’s probably the most enjoyable thing. I am not a big hunter. I my bird hunt, I do some duck hunting, but being on those Nordic skis to me is the most good exercise, right? Good endorphins and all that stuff. So to me is the best thing I could do on

Woody Beardsley (33:19):

Chris, I got to ask, I too love the skate ski, but you say cajoling it. Do I understand that you’re skating along and the dog is towing you at the same time, so are you going double the

Chris Corroon (33:31):

Space? Well, dogs give you just a slight little tug, so you’re going really your own speed, but the dogs do propel you a little bit. They’re not telling you because they couldn’t tell me I’m too heavy. But they do give you a little push and it’s a lot of fun. They work with you, they interact with you, and they love it. The dogs absolutely love it. They feel like you’re chasing him and running with ’em. So it’s just a great exercise. Doing it at night too is in the evening. You guys all know those winter evenings when kind of the skies got different colors and it’s just cold as it can be, and it’s a lot of fun. It’s great exercise.

Haley Mirr (34:19):

That’s awesome. I should get tater skiing kind of harness and have some

Chris Corroon (34:25):

Dogs are good at, sometimes you dogs get all tangled up in this sc harnesses and leashes. But yeah, it’s fun. You got to get the right dog.

Haley Mirr (34:36):

That’s so special. Yeah, you could bring your dog out probably what he’d probably do better than take.

Woody Beardsley (34:41):

Yeah, that’s what I’m going to follow up, Chris. I’m curious about getting that rig.

Haley Mirr (34:46):

That’s awesome. Well, I really appreciate you guys taking the time. We had a great holiday celebration yesterday, Chris, we missed you. But it’s just really cool to wrap up the year with you all and I’m hoping that this winter and into 2025, you find some kind of moments of reflection and times outside because that’s really why we do what we do. But I really appreciate you guys taking the time, this very busy holiday season to chat with me today. So thanks for coming.

Woody Beardsley (35:14):

Hey, it was great fun. Thanks for having it. Thanks, Haley.

Haley Mirr (35:16):

Yeah, nice to see you guys.

Woody Beardsley (35:18):

Happy Holidays. Merry Christmas.

Erik Anderson (35:19):

Merry Christmas.

Haley Mirr (35:23):

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